[HN Gopher] Letters from the Garrod children to their father
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       Letters from the Garrod children to their father
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-06-08 02:33 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
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       | marktangotango wrote:
       | I thought it was very innovative that my kids started "writing"
       | in kindergarten using whatever phonetic spelling they could come
       | up with. Interesting to see these children were doing the same
       | thing long ago. Encouraging children to write this way must be
       | more common than I thought, I don't recall doing it when I was a
       | child.
        
         | gumby wrote:
         | My kid started bilingual school at grade 1. Because his native
         | language is phonetically spelled, it took him a while to
         | understand that English is not. Some spellings he could not
         | shake; my favorite was "peapole" for "people" which persisted
         | into second grade.
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         | I was very annoyed to hear the English teacher (they recruited
         | monoglot English teachers so they wouldn't take the easy path)
         | say "English spelling is hard". The right answer is that
         | "English spelling is only loosely phonetic".
        
       | bigbillheck wrote:
       | I was not previously familiar with these people, some inspection
       | shows that William Francis Garrod was an English official late in
       | the Raj (https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/02/garrod-family-
       | papers...) as well as a scab
       | (https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/10/the-general-
       | strike-1...).
        
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